Abstract Background UK academic foundation programme (AFP) is an important steppingstone into surgical training, but there paucity in undergraduate preparedness. We aimed to evaluate the effectiveness of a virtual webinar series prepare students for applications and interviews. Method A cross-sectional study was conducted between 18/10/2020 – 19/12/2020. Ethical approval not required as this ev...

Given a knot K in the 3-sphere, let QK be its fundamental quandle as introduced by D. Joyce. Its first homology group is easily seen to be H1(QK) ∼= Z. We prove that H2(QK) = 0 if and only if K is trivial, and H2(QK) ∼= Z whenever K is non-trivial. An analogous result holds for links, thus characterizing trivial components. More detailed information can be derived from the conjugation quandle: ...

The recent identification of the long elusive pollen determinant of self-incompatibility (SI) in the Brassicaceae family (Schopfer et al., 1999) marks a major advance in SI research. Not only is it now unambiguously proven that in the genus Brassica SI specificity of pollen and stigma is governed by separate genes, but in addition, the availability of the pollen specificity gene opens new avenu...

The recent identification of the long elusive pollen determinant of self-incompatibility (SI) in the Brassicaceae family (Schopfer et al., 1999) marks a major advance in SI research. Not only is it now unambiguously proven that in the genus Brassica SI specificity of pollen and stigma is governed by separate genes, but in addition, the availability of the pollen specificity gene opens new avenu...

the critical properties of a solute are required for modeling of the solubility by the equation of state. for many compounds, the critical properties are not available. so, group contribution method is utilized as a common method to estimate these properties. but, it leads to the consecutive errors in calculations of the solubility modeling. in this study, soave-redlish-kowang (srk) and peng-ro...

The critical properties of a solute are required for modeling of the solubility by the equation of state. For many compounds, the critical properties are not available. So, group contribution method is utilized as a common method to estimate these properties. But, it leads to the consecutive errors in calculations of the solubility modeling. In this study, Soave-Redlish-Kowang (SRK) and Peng-Ro...

Reverse micellar systems are nanofluids with unique properties that make them attractive in high selectivity separation processes, especially for biological compounds. Understanding the phase behavior and thermodynamic properties of these nanosystems is the first step in process design. Separation of components by these nanosystems is performed upon contact of aqueous and reverse micellar phase...

In memory of my father Sundaram Ramakrishnan (SRK) Contents 1. Introduction 2. Notation and preliminaries 3. Construction of ⊠ : A(GL(2)) × A(GL(2)) → A(GL(4)) 3.1. Relevant objects and the strategy 3.2. Weak to strong lifting, and the cuspidality criterion 3.3. Triple product L-functions: local factors and holomorphy 3.4. Boundedness in vertical strips 3.5. Modularity in the good case 3.6. A d...